Habeas Corpus? Not on Bush's Watch!

(Via The Washington Post)

WASHINGTON, Sept. 28 - The Senate approved legislation this evening governing the interrogation and trials of terror suspects, establishing far-reaching new rules in the definition of who may be held and how they should be treated.

The vote, 65-to-34, came after more than 10 hours of often impassioned debate touching on the Constitution, the horrors of Sept. 11 and the nation's role in the world, but it was also underscored by a measure of politics as Congress prepares to break for the final month of campaigning before closely fought midterm elections.

The legislation sets up rules for the military commissions that will allow the government to prosecute high-level terrorists including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, considered the mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. It strips detainees of a habeas corpus right to challenge their detentions in court and broadly defines what kind of treatment of detainees is prosecutable as a war crime.

So if they hate us for our freedom, I guess this tactic is aimed at making them hate us less by eliminating those freedoms? What a perversion of the principles this country was founded on. And for what? Will it truly make us any safer? And even if it did, is it worth losing the chunk of our souls that it will take to be the kind of a nation that does this kind of shit? These are truly dark times.